Our third amigo wasn't able to make the trip to #Baltimore, but I had a blast hanging out with author and podcast co-host Brady Harrison. We met a lot of interesting folks and sold a bunch of #books at #AWP26
Our third amigo wasn't able to make the trip to #Baltimore, but I had a blast hanging out with author and podcast co-host Brady Harrison. We met a lot of interesting folks and sold a bunch of #books at #AWP26
Melissa will be signing Einstein the Science Dog, and other #books for children at 11:30, booth 807, #AWP26 #Baltimore
I really enjoyed chatting with folks who stopped by the press's booth at #AWP26 - looking forward to more conversation tomorrow
I really enjoyed chatting with folks who stopped by the press's booth at #AWP26 - looking forward to more conversation tomorrow
Holy #Frankenstein! A lot of Mary Shelley fans at #AWP26 - quickly sold out of Aspiring Child - also great talking about Mary with other devotees #maryshelley
ll be signing #books at #AWP26 at 11. Booth 767
Twelve Winters Press is ready to rumble at AWP Baltimore. #AWP26 #writingcommunity
We'll be packing our bags (mainly with books) and heading to Baltimore in a couple of days for #AWP26 - looking forward to hanging out with fellow literary types and seeing the sights of Baltimore - I haven't been in years, but the energy is always manic
The second book in my unplanned trilogy of books inspired by Mary Shelley was the novel the Mrs Saville - which did well for itself, even winning the Manhattan Book Award youtube.com/shorts/i27cx...
Aspiring Child: A Biography of Mary W. Shelley in Sonnets is actually part of a #trilogy of #books I wrote inspired by #maryshelley - the first was the #novel An Untimely Frost, published in 2014 youtube.com/shorts/v4CLu...
Newly published at Twelve Winters Miscellany - A Critique of Annihilation by Aiswari A.V. and Gayathri Mohan twelvewinters.com/av-mohan-wei...
We are experimenting with a virtual book club to discussion the short stories in After Dinner Conversation. Makes sense, each story comes with five discussion questions anyway! You can sign up here! buff.ly/ChD2bd6
#bookclub #virtualbookclub #shortstory #meetup
Brady and I will be in Baltimore next week for #AWP26 - with some 10,000 writers, editors and publishers there, we plan to record some interviews for the #podcast - Grant ditched us to be in a Neil Simon play ... Break a leg, G-man!
I think this young reviewer got it exactly right: Even though Mary lived two centuries ago, her fears, her struggles, her stress, her trauma are all too familiar, especially for young women of the 21st century. Mary Shelley's story is an Everywoman's story in many ways.
Truly a pleasure ... both things!
I have the honor of writing a blurb for this forthcoming #book, much of which was written in a Thesis course I taught for @lindenwoodmfa.bsky.social - Congratulations @nkweidman.bsky.social & kudos to indie publisher @tortoisebooks.bsky.social for bringing it out
While Aspiring Child is about much more than Mary's writing of #Frankenstein, there are several sonnets devoted to its macabre origin and teenage Mary's strange summer at the Villa Diodati #maryshelley #biography #ghoststories #gothicnovel
I made a #video, mainly for my MFA students, and decided to turn it into Bonus Episode 10 of our #podcast - it's on the importance of trusting the #creative process, applicable to #writing and all creative endeavors.
A #video about a brief #review of Aspiring Child by #Romantics scholar Dilara Kalkan, known on Instagram as @odetoshelley - she "highly recommend[s]" the #book - #maryshelley #biography #poetry youtube.com/shorts/5fvhY...
A brief #video about the paperback edition of Aspiring Child #maryshelley #frankenstein #biography #poetry youtube.com/shorts/Wr7TE...
Nabokov said the key (the only key) to a book's success was a vigorous advertising campaign. #maryshelley #frankenstein #biography #poetry #romantics #gothic
#Writer friends: Has your inbox become overrun with emails from "people" who offer to help to promote your #book? For a fee of course. They're obviously AI-generated schemes. It started a few months ago and has increased in intensity. Now I get a dozen or more per day.
New publisher listing for: North American Review Short Story Prize @northamerreview.bsky.social (Fiction; pays; fee-based). #WritingCommunity
Ready for circulation. I was curious where the catalogers would place a biography/poetry collection (DDC 818.60, if you're curious).
This week from Hell Itself, @dvewlsh.com brings us a story of mistakes that span generations:
Aspiring Child paperbacks have arrived ##maryshelley #biography #poetry
I'm grateful that my #trauma theory #book continues to make its way around the world - 2 copies sold this week, and notification of citations in this article and a recently accepted MA thesis written in Slovak. #psychology #literature #history #PTSD
I very much appreciate the shoutout from this scholar whose work focuses on Mary and other Romantics in her circle - the result of sharing a review copy of the #book - #maryshelley #biography #poetry
Congratulations to Twelve Winters author and podcast co-host Grant Tracey, whose debut film, By the Stars of Saint Matthew, has been accepted for screening by the Iowa Nebraska Heartland Film Festival - the second festival to recognize its unique artistry
